Guest post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of blogs. Mid July is frantically busy for primary schools, and I guess the last thing heads and teachers want is somebody like me strolling in to drink their tea...

Yammer , the enterprise social network and one of Microsoft’s most recent acquisitions, allows you to collaborate, communicate and share your thoughts within your network, be it a school or business. Think ‘The Social Network’ and Facebook’s origins,...

As schools and other education customers move to Office 365 for education in Australia ( more info here ), it provides another piece in the jigsaw puzzle of your technology infrastructure. Office 365 for education provides email, Lync communications,...

Guest post from Mark Reynolds, Business Manager for Schools South. 2 weeks ago, I was presenting to a group of Headteachers in Cambridge. They had asked me to go in and tell them about Windows8, before deciding whether to roll out a large batch of iPads...

It seems as if we're right in the middle of a massive shift in technology in education, as we move rapidly towards 1:1 computing and a larger variety of devices appearing in classrooms and IT labs. And that's compounded by the arrival of Bring Your Own...

In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of point of view through aerial photography. They will write a story about what the character Amelia the Pigeon would see if she flew over their school or home. Objectives Students will be introduced...

Many schools are postponing a decision on whether to purchase tablets for their pupils until the release of Windows 8, according to the British Education Suppliers Association (BESA). A BESA survey of 500 British schools found that 6% of all "pupil...

Schools will be given freedom to teach ICT how they choose, after a Government consultation found the current programme "not fit for purpose".
Education secretary Michael Gove admitted in January that computer teaching needed an overhaul, and following...

Great for academic institutions that are ready to take advantage of the cloud. Office 365 offers free email, instant messaging, group video and voice chat, and online document viewing and editing.
We’ve got a great video that shows how Office...

Moodle, a popular Learning Management System, is widely used across education. And Microsoft's SkyDrive is also widely used by both teachers and students (although in some government systems, the access is blocked to SkyDrive when in school) as a cloud...